Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: rozalia on June 13, 2014, 21:22
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As part of our local Horticultural societies' 100th anniversary we are opening our garden mid July for 2 days. I want to put labels near the major plants that we have and past experience hasn't been good - black permanent pen on white plastic labels seem to fade to nothing, ditto on metal labels. Has anyone got advice for labelling that will last more than a season? Thanks, Rose
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Copper that you can engrave? They do them in Wilkinsons...
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wooden labels with the names etched in using a dremel or soldering iron ?
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Thanks - my husband suggested copper - its just the etching bit that's putting me off. Will pop into Wilko's late in week and see what they have label wise in copper. Rose
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Am having great success finally with those thin wooden coffee stirrers written on with permanent marker, and some wooden barbeque skewers that have a 'thumb' flat bit at the top.
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A couple of years ago I bought some large slate labels from Wilcos for my permanent planting. I got one of those white pen markers to. Write on it, it seems to have stayed on it, I'll check later.
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I love the big wooden ones you can get - just can't justify them at the moment :dry:
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I use 1" x 1" x 12" pieces of kindling with ballpoint pen...haven't faded in 2 years.
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A soft pencil works better than permanent markers on the white plastic labels in my experience. Also easy to rub off to reuse.
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I have black plastic labels from ebay, written on with a white chalk pen. So far the text has lasted 15 months outside with no fading or chipping.